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James Cook

Photo: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

The ARC Centre of Excellence for It is the largest single institutional Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in

Coral Reef Studies undertakes world- contributor to the Global Coral Reef Townsville, Australia.

leading integrated research for sustain- Targeted Research Program, funded by According to ISI Essential Science In- able use and management of coral reefs. the World Bank, and is an Institutional dicators, four of the ARC Centre’s ma-

Funded in July 2005 under the Austra- Member of the Resilience Alliance. The jor research partners rank in the top 20 lian Research Council (ARC) Centres of Centre of Excellence has strong links institutions world-wide for citations for

Excellence program this prestigious re- to the Census of Marine Life project, coral reef science with JCU ranking 1st search centre is headquartered at James and to coral reef management agen- (among 1644 institutions in 103 coun-

Cook University (JCU), Australia. The cies worldwide, particularly the Great tries).

ARC Centre is a partnership with JCU, the Australian Institute of Marine Sci- ence (AIMS), the Australian National

University (ANU), the Great Barrier

Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRM-

PA), the University of Queensland (UQ) and the University of Western Australia (UWA).

The ARC Centre of Excellence ce- ments Australia’s leading contribution to coral reef sciences and fosters stron- ger collaborative links between the ma- jor partners and 24 other leading institu- tions in nine countries. Collectively, the

ARC Centre creates the world’s largest concentration of coral reef scientists.

The ARC Centre of Excellence takes a leading role in multi-national research, focusing its efforts on three research ar- eas: People and Ecosystems, Ecosystem

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